A new year always brings a fresh sense of motivation. New goals, new routines, and often a busy calendar filled with events and challenges to look forward too. But while it’s easy to focus on what you want  to achieve this year, it’s worth asking an important question first: is your body ready for it? Ready for the changes and the challenges you are wanting to put through it? What Are Your New Year’s Resolutions? Every January, I hear similar goals from clients: • “I want to

We all know what it feels like to be stressed the racing thoughts, the tight chest, the feeling that you can’t switch off. But what a lot of people don’t realise is how much stress affects the body, not just the mind. That stiffness in your shoulders or tension in your jaw after a busy week? That’s stress showing up in your muscles. What Stress Does to Your Body When you’re under stress, your body goes into “fight or flight” mode. It releases hormones like cortisol and adrena

A lot of people only book a soft tissue therapy session once something starts hurting a stiff neck, a sore shoulder, or a tight lower back that just won’t ease up. But here’s the thing soft tissue therapy isn’t just about fixing pain once it arrives. It’s about stopping those problems from developing in the first place. It can also lead to a faster recovery if something then does go downhill. Why Prevention Matters Most aches, pains, and niggles don’t appear out of nowhere. T

Muscle tension isn’t just something athletes or gym-goers deal with. Most of us carry it around every day without even realising it. That...

If you spend most of your day at a desk, you’ve probably had that nagging ache in your neck or the stiffness across your lower back. It’s...

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Just a short little post on muscle Imbalances and how these can affect both performance and wellness. If you have a muscle Imbalance...

What's a sports massage? Is it just for sports people? Is it worth having? A sports massage is a massage technique which manipulates the...

What is rocktape? It is a brand of kinesiology tape of which is one of the most well known in the world. It is used by many different...

So, you may have heard of the term rotator cuff chucked around the gym and office environments as soon as someone reports of shoulder...

With the end of January closing in. We've had a busy few weeks at the clinic with people coming in who are kicking 2019 off with a big...

Are you one of these people who enjoys to workout, play sport, generally active, or even just taking on life head on? Do you continually...

What is it for? How do you use it? Why did you buy it? Does it make a good door stop? There are a huge number of people who own a foam...

I get asked quite often what the main differences are between Sports Massage and Soft Tissue Therapy (STT), and whether or not STT would...